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Aug. 28, 1928. 1,682,362

M. VON HALLE ART OF SEWING Fild April 13, 1927 INVENTOR ATTORNEY Patented Aug. 28,- 1928.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE. j

MILLARD ,VON HALLE, OF PALISADES PARK, JERSEY, ASSIGNOR TO THE STAND- ARD CORSET COMPANY, OF NEW YORK, N. Y., A CORPQRATION OF MASSACHU- SETTS.

ART or SEWI-NG.

Application filed April 13, 1927. Serial No. 183,359.

This invention relates to the art of sewing, and has for its main object and features a method whereby disks .of relatively rigid Ina-- terial may be secured in position between layers of flexible material by sewing.

In the accompanying drawings the invention isdisclosed in a concrete and preferred form in which Fig. l is a perspective view of a sewing machine head and associated elements embodying the invention.

Fig. 2 is a plan view, with parts broken away and in section, of the parts shown in Fig. 1 with material shown in position and being acted upon.

Fig. 3 is a detailplan View of a modified form of the invention.

In order to stiffen certain flexible material, such as that which is used in corsets, it is, at times, desirable to use stiffening means other than the conventional boning consisting of flat strips. I purpose to use disk-like members such as A which are placed between two or more layers of flexible material such as 12 and 12. The disk is provided with an opening a at its center and the layers of flexible material are provided with corresponding openings and preferably a gromet or eyelet a is used to initially secure the disk and flexible material together. B indicates a sewing head having here needle 10, presser foot 10 and feeding means 11. Adjacent needle 10 and parallel thereto is a post 14 constituting a pivot or center that is passed through the eyeletaforesaid, and this post is spaced from the needle a distance somewhat greater than the radius of the disk. WVhen the flexible material is now placed in position on sewing table 13 and in operative relation to the sewing head, the needle of the latter will stitch the two layers together circumferentially around the disk, as at B to thereby confine said disk between the layers of flexible material. During this action the disk and material turn on pivot 14 and all danger of needle 10 striking the disk is avoided.

The post may be secured to the sewing machine in any suitable way. Preferably a plate as 1 is provided carrying said post, and this plate isprovided with an L-shape extension 2 through which passes a set-screw 3 which mayenter an opening 4 in the sewing table. Plate 1 is further provided with a dependent flange 5 that extends into a slot 6 cut in'recess 7 usually found in sewing machines and which recess is covered by slide 9 in the usual way.

When screw 3 is tightened and slide 9 is in po-.

sition, plate 1 is held rigidly and against displacement. To provide for difl erent size disks different members like 1 with-parts 14 may be provided, or, as shown in Fig. 3, a plurality of openings 15 may be employed into any one of which post 14 may be secured.

I claim: 7 i

The method of securing a disk, interposed between layers of flexible material, to said material which consists in: initially attaching the layers of material and disk together with an eyelet at the center of the disk, mounting the disk and layers on a pivot adjacent a sewing head. and then subjecting the layers of flexible material to the action of said sewing head to sew the layers together circumferentially around the disk. I

Signed at the borough of Manhattan, county and State of New York, April 1927.

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